Reviews
July 20, 2011
What Ever Happened to the New Atheism? 24
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Five years ago, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens launched a jihad against religion. But their colleague A.C. Grayling’s new “Humanist Bible” suggests something surprising: maybe the quarrel wasn’t really with God after all.
July 15, 2011
Homecoming: Meg Mitchell Moore’s The Arrivals 1
by Jennifer Miller
It’s not the large problems that drive The Arrivals but the small ones—Mitchell’s meticulous attention to detail and the vibrancy with which she portrays the complex emotions of family life.
July 14, 2011
On Coincidence, Constraints, and Matthew Stadler’s Cover Novel 3
by Anne K. Yoder
“A good cover is both a tribute to the original and its own new song.”
July 13, 2011
To Jobs that Pay the Rent: Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar 1
by Jessica Freeman-Slade
What we do with our time is an essential expression of who we are and who we hope to be. The multitudes of working life are beautifully chronicled in this anthology of short stories edited by Richard Ford.
July 11, 2011
The Agony and the Agony: Suzanne Rivecca’s Death is Not an Option 1
by Theodore Wheeler
Something has gone terribly wrong.
June 28, 2011
Oprah, Amazon, and The Rise of Therapeutic Fiction: Timothy Aubry’s Reading as Therapy 5
by Jon Baskin
Why Do People Read Literary Fiction?
